WGA writer Riham El-Ounsi discusses hierarchies in TV writer’s rooms, an indie film about the porn industry in the 70s, and the distraction fighting powers of a Freewrite Typewriter. Warning: there will be some nostalgia & singing at the end of this episode.

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Riham El-Ounsi is a WGA-nominated writer and producer, primarily working in the world of game and competition series. She has produced and written for shows on networks such as ABC, NBC, and FOX. She also works heavily in unscripted development, creating and fleshing out game, travel, and lifestyle series. Riham has collaborated with companies like SMAC Entertainment, TurnerMedia, and Sony, to bring ideas from pitch to stage, like "Snoop Dogg: Presents the Joker's Wild."

In addition, Riham has also worked on the development of live events, working alongside Disney talent to bring interactive dance parties to LiveNation venues. So far, she and her team have produced over 30 live performances across the US.

Riham is currently working on her memoir, but most importantly, on herself.

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Ariana and Meryl sit down with Maisy Card, award-winning author of These Ghosts Are Family. They share takes on first person narratives, audiobooks, day jobs, dialect, favorite ways to procrastinate writing, and much more.

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Maisy Card

Maisy Card is the author of the novel These Ghosts Are Family, which won an American Book Award, the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize in fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review Daily, AGNI, The New York Times, Guernica, and other publications. Maisy was born in Portmore, Jamaica, and raised in Queens, NY. She’s currently a public librarian and lives in Newark, NJ.

www.maisycard.com

Find These Ghosts are Family at Bookshop.org, Simon & Schuster, or at your local bookstore or library.

Listen to Maisy's Audbile Original story in Lover’s Rock.

Follow Maisy on Twitter @dracm and Instagram @librarylovefest.

Keep an eye out for Maisy's next novel Difficult Patrons set to be released in 2026.

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Meet your hosts Meryl Branch-McTiernan and Ariana McLean. This episode delves into the challenges one faces as a writer trying to release her work into a world dominated by capitalist forces and how building this creative community is the antidote to despair.

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Watch Meryl's movie Katie's Mom on Amazon Prime or Tubi.

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